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Theres been heavy debate at our company about doing something about it because our guys are also forgetting to check them. i've honestly heard so much about them the past 2 months that I'm peranoid about leaving them in. So I check them on EVERY preflight even on a quick turn! That way it will NEVER happen.
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Ive been doing the same thing now. Even if I start the preflight knowing full well that they are out (such as on through flight), I'll make a point to look at the gear pin holes.
As for the purpose of the gear pins- it's an additional precaution that prevent the gear from being Inadvertently raised while sitting on the ground. Unfortunetly if you leave them in, they stop the gear from coming up once airborne too.
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In my experience, the installing of gear pins is normally associated with some sort of maintenance function occuring in the aircraft. This is normally entered in the logbook and the pins are removed at the end of the maintenance function and the logbook signed off by the maintenance tech..
I've never really heard of gear pins being installed between flights such as in a quick turn situation, but perhaps each company has its own set of rules.
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